Posted on 03/18/2003 8:27:16 AM PST by icwhatudo
Bulgaria Making its Sarafovo Black Sea airbase available to the US, opening its airspace to U.S. warplanes and offering 150 non-combat troops, engineers and logistical troops.
Albania "We want to be as helpful as possible to the United States and stand ready to join the coalition of the willing as your friend and ally." Prime Minister Fatos Nano
Offering overflights and opening its territorial waters to U.S. warships.
The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and the guided missile cruiser USS San Jacinto recently conducted two-week maneuvers with Albanian naval units in the Adriatic Sea, within striking distance of Iraq.
During operation "Enduring Freedom" Provided elite commando detachment under Turkish command to ISAF and provided small arms, ammunition, mortars and shells, to equip a battalion of the Afghan National Army.
Czech Republic and Slovakia Have pledged their Kuwait-based anti-chemical warfare unit of 427 members and opened airspace to military overflights.
Romania Expelled Iraqi diplomats, offering their air and naval bases on the Black Sea (4,000 U.S. troops are based in the Black Sea port of Constanta)
Hungary Providing training base for Iraqi exiles in the south of the country, where they will be trained by the US military to take part in an invasion of Iraq.
BRITISH FORCES Total strength has swelled to 45 000 men and women including Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force personnel.
The ministry of defence on March 13 said the "majority" of its forces had arrived in the Gulf.
The main British ground fighting force numbers 26 000 and will be led by 1 UK Armoured Division headquarters, deployed with one of its three brigades. The force also includes the 7th Armoured Brigade, the "Desert Rats", with 3 400 combat troops, 120 Challenger-2 tanks and 150 Warrior armoured fighting vehicles. These are likely to be based in Kuwait.
Britain has also sent 16 Air Assault Brigade's 2 100 helicopter-mobile paratroops and 102 Logistics Brigade.
An estimated additional 3 000 army personnel including command and control units, engineers and signallers have also been deployed.
At sea, Britain has sent a 16-ship naval flotilla carrying 4 000 Royal Marines from the Commando Brigade, capable of deploying by helicopter or surface landing craft, plus a Fleet Submarine.
The naval fleet, manned by 4 000 sailors, is led by the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and helicopter assault ship Ocean, both equipped with troop-carrying helicopters rather than fixed-wing jets.
Britain's Royal Air Force component in the Gulf numbers 100 fixed-wing aircraft - including Hercules transport aircraft, Tornado and Harrier jets - and 27 Puma and Chinook helicopters, all supported by about 7 000 personnel.
Austrailia Landing ship HMAS Kanimbla, frigates HMAS Anzac and HMAS Darwin.
Austrailia has commited a squadron of 14 F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft, three C130 Hercules transport aircraft, two P3-C Orion maritime patrol aircraft, and an RAAF Air Forward Command Element.
Special Forces support elements, including specialist troops to deal with the threat of weapons of mass destruction drawn from the newly-established Incident Response Regiment, three CH-47 Chinook troop-lift helicopters and a quick reaction support force drawn from the Sydney-based 4RAR Commando unit.
A Navy clearance diver team capable of locating, rendering safe and disposing of mines.
Australia's commitment will reach nearly 2,000 troops.
Poland a chemical weapons response unit, a commando unit, and the logistics ship Czarniecki.
Ukraine a specialized unit ready to fight against the impact of arms of mass destruction.
Egypt opened the Suez Canal and its airspace to the U.S. Navy and Air Force, and instructed the state-controlled media to print commentaries sharply critical of the Iraqi leader
The three former Soviet Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, underlined their backing for the US position.
JAPAN "We totally support President Bush if he takes military action," Koizumi said. "We take this position because we place primary importance on the Japan-U.S. alliance and international cooperation."
France has become an unwitting ally of the U.S. by helping us to
Get the US out of the UN
Get the UN out of the US
Get the Land of the Free out of the Club of Tyrants
Get the Bunch of Cowards out of the Home of the Brave
"Le monde, c'est moi."
Chirac is living in his own little world.
I feel much more secure knowing the might legions of Bulgaria and the narco-white slavers of Albania and the no-army Japanese back us to the hilt!
Anyone got a list?
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